From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-04-03T06:39:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket::Constants incomplete ?

Michael Conrad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today I tried to use ruby to read data from an ax25 socket using the 
> socket api.
> 
> I think, that some definitions/constants are missing. There are no 
> constants
> for AF_AX25, AF_PACKET and the method htons is missing also.

Hm, AF_AX25 should get defined in ruby if it is available in C:

[ruby/src/ruby/ext/socket] grep AF_AX *
socket.c:#ifdef AF_AX25
socket.c:    sock_define_const("AF_AX25", AF_AX25);

Maybe socket.c isn't including the right header file, in which case it 
might be a bug in the extconf.rb.

Dunno about AF_PACKET--it doesn't seem to be referenced anywhere in the 
socket extension.

For htons(), you can use String#unpack and Array#pack.

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